Islam Rediscovered
12. Islamic Fundamentalism
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works of history. All other events will either be
relegated to the background or omitted altogether.
IDEOLOGICAL HATRED
Hatred is a crime and ideological hatred is the
greatest
crime.
The
so-called
Islamic
fundamentalism, if judged by its result, is the
greatest crime of this kind against humanity. Any
thing can be eliminated, but what is impossible to
eliminate is the hatred produced by a sacred
ideology: Hatred generates violence and ideological
hatred generates unlimited violence. It can kill all of
humanity without suffering any feelings of remorse
or repentance. Hence the self-styled Islamic
fundamentalism turns into an un-Islamic theory.
One type of movement is that which is based on
love. Its aim is to reform human beings. Such a
movement awakens in its adherents, feelings of
well-wishing towards other human beings. Its
exponents strive peacefully to pass on the truth that
they have discovered for the benefit of their fellow
men. Such a movement, far from causing harm to
society, becomes a driving force towards the moral
and social uplift of people in all walks of life.
